Popular Resources in Literatures, Languages, and Film

The resources listed below are excellent starting points for research in literary studies, linguistics, theatre, and film. However, these resources represent only a small portion of our collection. For a full list of our electronic resources in literary studies, linguistics, theatre, and film, please see our subject guides. Unless otherwise noted, all resources are restricted to UIUC users.

The Arts & Humanities Citation Index in the Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database covering academic journal literature. It indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

Provides full online access to the long-trusted resource of the Dictionary of Literary Biography. As in print, the DLB Complete Online features in-depth entries on nearly 143,000 literary figures that range across genres, nationalities, and historical eras. The entries include photographs, portraits, detailed bibliographies, and citations. The Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online also includes the Yearbook Series and Documentary Series.

Electronic Enlightenment, a project of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, archives nearly 60,000 pieces of correspondence and other documents, "allowing you to see the complex web of personal relationships in the early modern period and the making of the modern world." [Note: access to this resource is limited to five simultaneous UIUC users.]

Indexes film literature from 300 periodicals since 1972, and includes the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) thesaurus. Additionally, the database features print sources for 22,000 silent films, a bibliography of FIAF members' publications and a directory of film and TV documentation collections. This database is an acclaimed international compendium of information on film and television from the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF).

A useful resource for beginning to research an author, Literature Criticism Online offers introductions to authors' bodies of work, bibliographies of primary and secondary works, and extensive excerpts from criticism related to authors.

Provides full-text access to articles and reviews from over a thousand multi-disciplinary journals. Most journals in JSTOR do not have the most recent 3 to 5 years of issues, but select journals also feature current articles. Use Project MUSE for current journal articles.

The premier resource for works of scholarly criticism. The MLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly journals, theses, proceedings, and books in language, literature, folklore, and linguistics from 1963 to the present. Also available in print form.